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New York Theatre Workshop

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCES 2013-2014 SEASON TO INCLUDE

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
BACHARACH REIMAGINED

MUSIC BY BURT BACHARACH

 LYRICS BY HAL DAVID AND OTHERS

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS BY KYLE RIABKO

DIRECTED BY STEVE HOGGETT

FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN

WRITTEN BY WILL POWER

DIRECTED BY DES MCANUFF

AND

CARYL CHURCHILL RETURNS TO NYTW

WITH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF

LOVE AND INFORMATION

WRITTEN BY CARYL CHURCHILL
DIRECTED BY JAMES MACDONALD

ONE ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION
TO BE ANNOUNCED IN COMING WEEKS

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo are proud to announce that its 2013-2014 subscriber season will include What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, with musical arrangements by Kyle Riabko and directed by Steven Hoggett;  Fetch Clay, Make Man written by Will Power and directed by Des McAnuff; and Love and Information written by Caryl Churchill and directed by James Macdonald.  In the coming weeks NYTW will announce an additional production that will round out the season.

PS CLASSICS TO RECORD
DELUXE TWO-DISC CAST RECORDING OF

PASSION 

CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY’S
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW PRODUCTION OF
STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND JAMES LAPINE’S
TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL

PASSION

DIRECTED BY JOHN DOYLE

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that PS Classics, home to a dozen Sondheim cast albums, will record and release the cast recording of its critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony Award-winning musical PASSION, directed by John Doyle.

National Theatre Live

On Thursday, March 21, National Theatre Live will broadcast a live performance of

PEOPLE

the acclaimed new comedy by Alan Bennett

featuring Frances de la Tour

directed by Nicholas Hytner

 CLICK HERE to view the PEOPLE trailer.

WHAT: 

A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It’s a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world… a saleroom here, an exhibition there:  art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover.

HER VOICE WOULD DEFINE A GENERATION, BUT FIRST SHE HAD TO FIND IT.

 B E A U T I F U L
T H E   C A R O L E   K I N G   M U S I C A L

WILL BEGIN PERFORMANCES ON BROADWAY
 SPRING, 2014

NEW MUSICAL
ABOUT THE LIFE AND CAREER OF
CAROLE KING

FEATURES STUNNING ARRAY OF HIT SONGS BY
GERRY GOFFIN / CAROLE KING

AND

BARRY MANN / CYNTHIA WEIL

BOOK BY ACADEMY® AWARD NOMINATED FILMMAKER
DOUGLAS McGRATH 

New York, NY – Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced today that Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the life and career of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, will begin performances on Broadway in Spring, 2014.  The new musical, featuring a stunning array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil, and a book by Academy® Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath, will play a Fall 2013 pre-Broadway engagement, to be announced shortly.

Question to Sue Mengers: I take it I wouldn’t have got into one of your parties?
Sue’s answer: My own mother wouldn’t have got in
if she was standing outside in the rain.
- Vanity Fair, 2009

REHEARSALS BEGIN TODAY FOR

BETTE MIDLER

IN

I’LL EAT YOU LAST

THE NEW PLAY BY TONY AWARD WINNER JOHN LOGAN

DIRECTED BY TWO-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER JOE MANTELLO

BOOTH THEATRE BOX OFFICE OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 15

Get I'll Eat You Last Tickets

Rehearsals begin today for Bette Midler’s return to Broadway in John Logan’s new one-woman play I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, directed by Joe Mantello. In addition, Booth Theatre Box Office (222 West 45th Street) will begin selling tickets to the play this Friday, March 15.

PREMIERES ANNOUNCED FOR THE
2013 PILOBOLUS SEASON

MAGIC, MUSIC, MOVEMENT & MORE

AT

THE JOYCE THEATER

COLLABORATIONS WITH INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED
CHOREOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER

TRISH SIE

 AND

MASTERS OF ILLUSION

PENN & TELLER

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) and Pilobolus Dance Theatre are pleased to announce two new works which will have their New York premieres on the Joyce stage this summer during the annual 4-week Pilobolus summer engagement. 

Friday, 08 March 2013 23:23

Broadway Review: CINDERELLA

Somewhere, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are smiling.  56 years after it premiered on CBS as a tele-movie-musical, their classic musical, Cinderella, has come home where it belongs, Broadway.  This production is a smart and stylish production worthy of the names Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Shout! Broadway announces
New Broadway Cast Recording for

ANNIE

Produced by 12-time Grammy® Award-winner Thomas Z. Shepard,
New Cast Recording will be released at the Palace Theatre  and Digital Platforms in early May
and available in stores nationwide this Spring 

Get Annie Tickets

NEW YORK, NYShout! Factory, and its Broadway cast imprint Shout! Broadway, is pleased to announce that it will release and distribute the New Broadway Cast Recording for the critically- acclaimed production of the classic Broadway musical,ANNIE.

BOX OFFICE OPENS
MONDAY, MARCH 11 AT 10AM

The Trip to Bountiful

Starring

CICELY TYSON,
CUBA GOODING JR, VANESSA WILLIAMS,
CONDOLA RASHAD and TOM WOPAT 

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   * 

14-Week Limited Engagement Begins March 30, 2013
At Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Opening Night is April 23, 2013 

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

Get The Trip to Bountiful Tickets

March 8, 2013 – The Stephen Sondheim Theatre Box Office (124 W 43rd St) will open on Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10am for the upcoming Broadway revival of HORTON FOOTE’S beloved classic, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, starring CICELY TYSON, CUBA GOODING, JR, VANESSA WILLIAMS, CONDOLA RASHAD and TOM WOPAT.

ON A STEEL HORSE IT RIDES

FIVE-TIME TONY AWARD-NOMINATED ROCK OF AGES
BREAKS INTO TOP FIFTY LONGEST RUNNING
BROADWAY SHOWS IN HISTORY

 Rock of Ages

CAPPING OFF THE SHOW’S RECORD-BREAKING FOURTH YEAR ON BROADWAY,
WHICH CELEBRATED ITS 1,500th PERFORMANCE,
ONE MILLIONTH CUSTOMER AND SEVEN BOX OFFICE RECORDS

“ABSURDLY ENJOYABLE! About as GUILTY as PLEASURES GET!”
– The New York Times 

“Is there a Tony for BAD-ASSERY?”
– The New Yorker

Get Rock of Ages Tickets

(New York, NY) Producers of the five-time Tony Award-nominated musical ROCK OF AGESwhich in its record-breaking fourth year on Broadway has celebrated its one-millionth customer, its 1500th performance and seven Box Office Records – are thrilled take their place on the Top 50 Longest Running Broadway Shows in History on Sunday, March 3, 2013 with 1,544 performances surpassing the original production of Jekyll & Hyde.  Proving ROCK OF AGES is as “impossible to resist” as The New York Times says it is, the production recently played more performances on Broadway than the Tony-winning original productions of Dreamgirls, The Sound of Music, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, The Music Man and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

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